{"id":6285,"date":"2008-05-22T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-22T23:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/european_court_to_hear_chimps_plea_for_human_rights\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T23:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-22T23:01:00","slug":"european_court_to_hear_chimps_plea_for_human_rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6285","title":{"rendered":"European Court to hear Chimp&#39;s Plea for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His name is Matthew, he is 26 years old, and his supporters hope to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights.<\/p>\n<p>But he won&#8217;t be able to give evidence on his own behalf  &#8211;  since he is a chimpanzee. Animal rights activists led by British teacher Paula Stibbe are fighting to have Matthew legally declared a &#8216;person&#8217; so she can be appointed as his guardian if the bankrupt animal sanctuary where he lives in Vienna is forced to close.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.co.uk\/news\/article-23486466-details\/European+Court+agrees+to+hear+chimp's+plea+for+human+rights\/article.do\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>His name is Matthew, he is 26 years old, and his supporters hope to take his case to the European Court of Human Rights. But he won&#8217;t be able to give evidence on his own behalf &#8211; since he is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=6285\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,200,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-europe","category-law-legal-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}